Christian Horner insists Red Bull’s F1 2026 e🐼ngine project is “hitting the targets” that have been set o🐽ut.

F1 will switch to revised power unit regulations from 2026 tꦰhat will see the MGU-H component dropped, with a greater emphasis placed on electric power provided by the MGU-K, and the adoption of sustainable fuels.

For the new regulation cycle, Red Bull and sister team RB will use engines developed by their in-house Red Bull Powertrains facility 𓃲at Milton Keynes. Ford will be working with Red B𒊎ull to develop the next-gen power unit.

There have been suggestions that Red Bull are behind rival power unit manufacturers and rumours of set-backs, but Horner🐼 has moved to alleviate such concerns.

“We are hitting the targets th🦩at we're setting ourselves,” he told .

“Now, how those targets stack up to our competitors is always difficult t♏o know. But the effort that's going in behind the scenes is huge, because it is lit🍰erally a race against the clock to the start of 2026.”

Horner continued: “With the engine, we're on an aggressive curve being a brand new power unit manufacturer. But the team is really rising to that chal🌜lenge.

“Our facilities are complete, bo♊th from a test and development point of view with dynos and rig rooms, etc, and manufacturing capability.

“But two years in the engine world is a very small period of time🌠. We're on a steep learning curve, but we're on that curve and where we would ex💎pect to be on that curve at this point in time.”

Red Bull potentially running into problems with their engine project has been cited as a possible reason for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to consider his future with the team. 

But the three-time world champion recently downpla🌸yed such fears, insisting it is far too early t🏅o be concerned.

“I mean, if I have to speculate about everything... I might be worried if I'm still alive tomorrow, right? So,🎃 I don't really worry about that too much,” Verstappen said

"Of course, I am in close contactꦦ with Christian about that and the people working there. Everyone's working flat out, so there is no need to panic about that. It's still not 2026✤.

"We know that it is a very big task, we don't take that lightly. 🥀And of course, with꧅ so many well-established engine manufacturers, we also don't think it's going to be easy to beat them.

"But we have a lot of good people working on the project🍌 and we're very excited about it. So time will tell, of course, where it's going to be."